Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: "Social" vs. "communal" living arrangements

[Hune Margulies (hm64]

It's Ferdinand Tonnies, A german social-philosopher before the first 
world war. He wrote "Community and Society" (Harper and Row, 1963) and 
"On Sociology. Pure, applied and empirical: Selected writings" (U. of 
Chicag Press, 1971) Tonnies and Georg Simmel, ("The conflict in moern 
culture and other essays, Teachers College, 1968)influenced Buber's 
conception of community and dialogue. Martin Buber was, IMHO, the most 
lucid philosopher dealing with the subject of community, relationships, 
I-Thou--I-It dichotomy and the historical analysis of the 
left-humanistic-libertarian tradition. (Which includes Gustav 
Landauer,another Jewish-German very strongly influencial of Buber's thought)
Buber modified these authors views by transposing them into the realm of 
social action and human communities. Buber advocated the Kibbutz as a 
possible model: shared ownership of land, mutual work, individual 
freedoms and non-utilitarian human relationships between members. Hune

On Tue, 13 Sep 1994, Bob Morrison wrote:

> On Sept. 11, Hune  Margulies <hm64 [at] columbia.edu> wrote:
> 
> >I belive that [what] you describe is the "intentionality" that serves as 
> >foundation for communitarian experiences. The Sociologist Tonnies used to 
> >differentiate between the "social" and the "communal" the communal being 
> >a more intimate and intentional kind of collaborative living arrangement.
> 
>   What is Tonnies' full name, what country was he/she from, and when did
> he/she write this? Does cohousing more closely fit a "social" or "communal"
> arrangement in this context?
>